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Read Indian Police arrest nine people for cell tower equipment theft
Indian Police arrest nine people for cell tower equipment theft

Indian Police arrest nine people for cell tower equipment theft

March 25, 2024 India / Bhārata

Police in India have arrested nine people for stealing cell tower equipment worth 60 lakh across Telangana state. The gang stole a variety of equipment from various sites, including Remote Radio Units (RRUs), Remote Radio Heads (RRHs), Base Band Units (BBUs), and cell tower cable wires of Bharti...

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Read Singtel sells minority stake in Bharti Airtel
Singtel sells minority stake in Bharti Airtel

Singtel sells minority stake in Bharti Airtel

March 09, 2024 India / Bhārata

Singapore's Singtel has sold an 0.8 percent stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel for S$950 million ($710m) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, trimming it’s stake in the company from 29.8 percent to 29 percent. The company plans to invest the funds in data centers and IT services....

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Read Colt acquires land for new data center in Chennai, India
Colt acquires land for new data center in Chennai, India

Colt acquires land for new data center in Chennai, India

March 08, 2024 India / Bhārata

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced the acquisition of a 10-acre plot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for a new data center development. The company had previously revealed its intention to expand into India last year with a large campus in Mumbai. In September it then said it was...

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Read PlanckDot raises $1 million for Edge data center roll-out
PlanckDot raises  $1 million for Edge data center roll-out

PlanckDot raises $1 million for Edge data center roll-out

February 19, 2024 India / Bhārata

Indian startup PlanckDot, a start-up specializing in Edge data centers, has secured $1.6 million in funding from high-net-worth angel investors for its Edge data center roll-out. According to the company’s website, it builds and deploys digital infrastructures and EV charging stations. Its...

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Read CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development
CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development

CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development

November 14, 2023 India / Bhārata

Singapore's CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) has secured a Rs 1,300 crore ($155.9m) five-year construction loan to develop its data center facility in Navi Mumbai. India. This fund, secured by J.P. Morgan India, will be used to finance the first phase of construction of the data center. Sanjeev...

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Read Indian DC company to invest $2bn in Asia and Middle East expansion
Indian DC company to invest $2bn in Asia and Middle East expansion

Indian DC company to invest $2bn in Asia and Middle East expansion

October 16, 2023 India / Bhārata

Indian data center company CtrlS Datacenters plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years for its expansion across Asia and the Middle East. The company plans to add 350MW of AI and cloud-ready hyperscale data center capacity to its existing 234MW capacity. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and...

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Read DLF to invest in Noida data center and IT park expansion
DLF to invest in Noida data center and IT park expansion

DLF to invest in Noida data center and IT park expansion

October 09, 2023 India / Bhārata

India's DLF has revealed plans to invest Rs 3,400 crore in its DLF Techpark and data centers in Noida, India. This park, located in Sector 143 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, spans over 25 acres as over 1.2 million square feet of housing, IT blocks, and data center space have been constructed on it...

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Read Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India
Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

October 02, 2023 India / Bhārata

West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state. A senior officer...

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Read CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India
CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

CapitaLand Launches Massive Data Center in Hyderabad, India

September 28, 2023 India / Bhārata

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur. CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the...

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Read Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

September 07, 2023 India / Bhārata

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order...

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Read Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint
Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

Indian real estate developer Anant Raj proposes 300MW data center footprint

September 05, 2023 India / Bhārata

The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a...

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Read India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center
India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

August 14, 2023 India / Bhārata

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC). As a joint venture between...

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Read AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility
AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

August 01, 2023 India / Bhārata

Over the next five years, AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million in India. With this investment, a new AMD campus will be constructed in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka. This will be the company's largest design center, and it is anticipated that approximately 3,000 new engineering...

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Read India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar
India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

July 17, 2023 India / Bhārata

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,'...

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Read TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center
TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center

TASMAC awards RailTel a $35.9 million contract for an India data center

June 28, 2023 India / Bhārata

RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's...

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Read Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

June 09, 2023 Mumbai

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. This...

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Read Lumina CloudInfra plans Navi Mumbai hyperscale data center
Lumina CloudInfra plans Navi Mumbai hyperscale data center

Lumina CloudInfra plans Navi Mumbai hyperscale data center

May 25, 2023 India / Bhārata

Lumina CloudInfra has announced it has broken ground on its new data center in Navi Mumbai. To be built on 6.3 acres, the company's Airoli site will offer a capacity of over 60 MW across two phases; the first of which is expected to be complete by 2025. Lumina CloudInfra is owned and managed...

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Read Knight Frank: Mumbai becomes third biggest data center market in Asia-Pacific region
Knight Frank: Mumbai becomes third biggest data center market in Asia-Pacific region

Knight Frank: Mumbai becomes third biggest data center market in Asia-Pacific region

May 24, 2023 Mumbai

A report by Knight Frank has revealed that Mumbai is now the third-largest data center market in the Asia-Pacific region. Mumbai follows Shanghai, Tokyo, which secured first and second place, with 2,692MW, and 2,575 MW, respectively. In third place, Mumbai now offers a total capacity of 2,337...

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Read Aurum Initiates a $250m Global Private Equity Data Facility Fund
Aurum Initiates a $250m Global Private Equity Data Facility Fund

Aurum Initiates a $250m Global Private Equity Data Facility Fund

May 22, 2023 India / Bhārata

Aurum Equity Partners, an Indian investment firm, plans to establish a new fund to invest in data center facilities and other infrastructure. The newly-formed digital infrastructure real estate investor announced last week the launch of its $250 million global private equity fund, which will...

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Read Homeshree Buys $24m Worth Webyne Data Facility Stake
Homeshree Buys $24m Worth Webyne Data Facility Stake

Homeshree Buys $24m Worth Webyne Data Facility Stake

May 11, 2023 India / Bhārata

Homeshree, an Indian non-banking financial company (NBFC), has purchased a $24.36m stake in Webyne Data Center. India-based Webyne is a cloud hosting and infrastructure provider. The investment is meant to enable Webyne to grow its product and tech portfolio, increase its expenditure on...

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